I’m pretty attached to my wallet. Like George Costanza once said about his wallet, “It is a part of me!” Since I bought my beloved Perry Ellis Gramercy Trifold Wallet at Filene’s on April 24, 2005, we’ve been through a lot together. It’s been in my pocket at my high school graduation, and on my first day [...]
I am guilty of indulging in the huge waste of time that is solitaire; particularly, any of the 30 varieties included in Smallware’s Solebon Solitaire, which—if you’re looking for a solitaire app for the iPhone that is both a joy to play and very artfully done—you’ll want to buy (c’mon, it’s only $1.99). For example, [...]
This wonderful song is from Danny Michel’s latest album, Feather, Fur & Fin. The banjo and harmonica are placed just right to keep some motion in the song while also portraying the slowness and downbeat nature of the writer’s situation. My favorite line is the last one of the first verse, “I pace like a lion [...]
How I would have loved to give a speech at Wesleyan’s commencement… Despite my failed dreams, there remains nostalgia to give me my kicks. I gave the valedictory speech at Abington High School’s graduation, in what was my first—and, I suppose, my only—public speaking performance in front of a crowd of thousands. On June 4, [...]
Like most determined Wes students, I’ve been checking my Academic History page every few hours, waiting for my grades to appear. I’m still waiting on my final two grades from the Fall ’08 semester. Unfortunately, those two grades are from the classes in which my final papers were not, um, up to my usual standard [...]
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I’m still trying to figure this one out. Despite my confusion, though, it’s still one badass tune. Flemish Eye is being mean and hasn’t made it available for purchase in the stateside version of the iTunes Store, but you can listen to it for free at CBC Radio 3. It was a beautiful night, yeah [...]
I’m sitting here blogging, when I should be writing my last and final paper of the semester. Earlier, I made myself dinner, when I should have been writing my last and final paper of the semester. Before that, I was shoveling snow, when I should have been writing my last and final paper of the [...]
This is the kind of stuff I listen to while I’m writing my papers. You let me violate you You let me desecrate you You let me penetrate you You let me complicate you Help me… I broke apart my insides Help me… I’ve got no soul to sell Help me… The only thing that works [...]
And all it took was 170 days; five telephone calls, including two speaking with supervisors; a complaint filed with the Better Business Bureau; two emails, including one to the CEO of T-Mobile; and, finally, one metric shit-ton of frustration. All for a $30 mail-in rebate that they’ve always admitted owing me. T-Mobile: I hope this [...]
This semester has been a trying time in terms of dealing with other students’ verbal tics. Most notably, I had one HIST class in which a student, who seemed intelligent otherwise, would preface not just every sentence or clause, but nearly every third word, with that Valley Girl standard, “like”. Earlier in the year, it [...]